[Food] Where is the best Cheese Ploughmans in Sussex

[scoobiewhite]

Royal Oak at Wineham

Very much this. Not only do you get a decent ploughmans but the pub itself is proper chocolate box.

Also, you never know when you are going to stumble on one of their little events like carribean day (complete with bands and food)

The last two times ive been we also had a farmer bring 10 or so workers in on a trailer behind his tractor and a horse rider pull up and tether her steed to the lovely walnut tree whist she hada couple of pints.

Top stuff!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I am with you on this. I thought a Ploughman's was bread, cheese, butter, maybe a pickled onion. However I once had a ploughmans that had no cheese. When I asked they said "oh you want a cheese ploughmans". Seems like an oxymoron but it's a thing apparently, hence the thread title.

We can't give in to these people, it's the thin end of the wedge.

 

[Giraffe]

Looks like a revisit to the Coach and Horses is on the cards but will definitely also check out the Royal Oak at Wineham. Presumably like all Royal Oak pubs it is names after the famous escape from the Parliamentarians of Charles II. Lovely.

 

[Giraffe]

You didn’t recognize the piccalilli?

That's the fella. It was on the tip of my tongue. Well actually it wasn't because I don't like it. But I accept it is a traditional element of a Ploughmans along with pickles.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That's the fella. It was on the tip of my tongue. Well actually it wasn't because I don't like it. But I accept it is a traditional element of a Ploughmans along with pickles.

It’s the finest condiment known to mankind.

 

[227 BHA]

The Coach & Horses, along the A27 at Clapham (West of Worthing). Mrs Bobkin and I went there last summer and were amazed by the quality and portion size. Nice pub, too

Absolutely this - amazing value and big enough for 2!

 

[dazzer6666]

Looks like a revisit to the Coach and Horses is on the cards but will definitely also check out the Royal Oak at Wineham. Presumably like all Royal Oak pubs it is names after the famous escape from the Parliamentarians of Charles II. Lovely.

Proper olde worlde pub…….since 1700s (building is much older). They don’t even use an electric till, just keep the cash in wooden drawers

 

[Giraffe]

I've just viewed the Royal Oak's sample menu.

Interesting options of Ploughmans:

Ploughmans Boards​

(individual item £8.95)
Cave-aged mature cheddar, brie or Stilton (v) (mixed £10.95)

Sussex rare roast beef, oven baked ham or Farmhouse pate (mixed £11.95)

Smoked salmon, sweet-cured herring or shell-on prawns (mixed £12.95)

Farmhouse Scotch eggs or pork pie £10.95

The Royal Oak platter (your choice of ploughman’s with a cup of today’s soup…) £10.95

 

[BNthree]

And the Coach and Horses sample menu:


3hr Slowcooked ham, stilton or cheddar Ploughman’s (Deal) £12.00
served with pickled onion, gherkin, piccalilli, slaw, onion chutney, apple, crown tomato, pork pie, salad & charred bread


Just me being a grumpy git but "slaw" should be coleslaw and "charred bread" otherwise known as toast.

Still it sounds good and I might have to visit soon.

 

[Giraffe]

And the Coach and Horses sample menu:


3hr Slowcooked ham, stilton or cheddar Ploughman’s (Deal) £12.00
served with pickled onion, gherkin, piccalilli, slaw, onion chutney, apple, crown tomato, pork pie, salad & charred bread


Just me being a grumpy git but "slaw" should be coleslaw and "charred bread" otherwise known as toast.

Still it sounds good and I might have to visit soon.

And be aware that the pork pie may be replaced by "a bit of old ham".

 

[Shopes]

The Coach & Horses, along the A27 at Clapham (West of Worthing). Mrs Bobkin and I went there last summer and were amazed by the quality and portion size. Nice pub

Looks like a revisit to the Coach and Horses is on the cards but will definitely also check out the Royal Oak at Wineham. Presumably like all Royal Oak pubs it is names after the famous escape from the Parliamentarians of Charles II. Lovely.

You'll have to try the Sussex Ale onion rings at the Coach and Horses too and report back on the other thread.

 

[A1X]

Just me being a grumpy git but "slaw" should be coleslaw and "charred bread" otherwise known as toast.

Burnt toast?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Whilst I agree they are nice to make at home, a Sunday walk is missing something without a proper pub plougman's in summer.

But I'm a fraud, I like them with brie.

Sorry.

Ha! me too, Brie and anything blue, the stinkier the better. Oh, and celery, l like celery with my cheese.

Celery! celery!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I don’t reckon I’ve had a ploughman’s in at least 15 years. Had kind of forgotten it existed. And now I really want one

Is that because the ploughman objected to you eating his lunch?

There is a joke in there somewhere . . . not very funny l know.

 

[maltaseagull]

Whilst I agree they are nice to make at home, a Sunday walk is missing something without a proper pub plougman's in summer.

But I'm a fraud, I like them with brie.

Sorry.

 

[Bozza]

By chance, just came across this thread which, although a bit old now, may provide further guidance...

Best Pub for a ploughmans lunch in West Sussex?

Any recommendations?

www.northstandchat.com

 

[um bongo molongo]

Not only had I forgotten a Ploughman’s existed, I now have to cope with the idea that one can exist without cheese? Troubling times.

 

[Giraffe]

By chance, just came across this thread which, although a bit old now, may provide further guidance...

Best Pub for a ploughmans lunch in West Sussex?

Any recommendations?

www.northstandchat.com

Good spot. HOWEVER, one of the recommendations was the Black Rabbit in Arundel. Great pub, great location, rubbish Ploughmans. So much so that when I last went they’d taken it off the menu.

 

[The Clamp]

Hector's Shed. Shoreham. If they still do it.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Good spot. HOWEVER, one of the recommendations was the Black Rabbit in Arundel. Great pub, great location, rubbish Ploughmans. So much so that when I last went they’d taken it off the menu.

It beggars belief that a pub can make a bad ploughman's, l mean it isn't rocket science, a good choice of cheese, fresh crusty bread, couple of pickled onions, a little bit of salady stuff, and chutney. Jobs done.

As the late great BG pointed out in the earlier thread, the mistakes that many pubs make is adding items to the dish that would never be on a classic ploughman's lunch, thereby complicating it.